Watching for a MUCH cooler weekend -- Keep the pitchforks away! -- And TS Danny

I can say that summer will continue through tomorrow. After that... be prepared for some fall-like weather moving in for the weekend (right in time for the Great Minnesota Get-Together)!

*Audience starts getting out their pitchforks and torches*

Wait, wait! Let me do the good news first! Today will see a mix of clouds and sun and we should be able to get up to around 77 for a high.

Tonight we'll see clear skies and 48.

More sun will reign Thursday with a high of 80.

The regime change starts Thursday Night with a cool front moving through, bringing a chance of showers and thunderstorms and lows getting to 57.

Friday rain should continue for at least the first half of the day, otherwise a mix of clouds and sun with a high of 71.

Saturday we will continue to see a mix of clouds and sun, but the ability of some showers and thunderstorms will be alive in the afternoon and evening due to an extreme difference between temps in the upper atmosphere and at ground level. Sunday should be a bit more sunny though. The big problem should be the temperatures, which is why you would want to use a pitchfork to me. I'm guessing that on both Saturday and Sunday highs will BARELY make it to the middle 60s, if even that!!! And to top that off... lows Saturday and Sunday Nights may plummet all the way down to the lower 40s and lower 30s (with a likely wind chill too)!!! And up north, especially Sunday Night, northern MN may drop low enough where frost/freeze advisories may need to be issued!

We should begin a slow warm up though at the beginning of next week. At least that's what I'm hoping. The cool summer continues... and the long fall season looks likely to begin. Oh, and to top it off, it looks like we could have a warmer than normal winter. Yeah.

Meanwhile in the Tropics, we had the formation of Tropical Storm Danny earlier today. Current forecasts have this storm forming into a Cat 1 Hurricane in the next few days and really affecting the coastline on the eastern seaboard by this weekend -- they have the storm skirting the Outer Banks of NC late Friday/early Saturday and possibly making a landfall in the Long Island/Cape Cod areas late on Saturday. Forecasts for tropical systems though are typically not that accurate, especially early on in a systems formation and even 3-5 days from now they are the most accurate. But Tropical Storm Danny is definitely a storm to watch for the east coast and right now poses more of a threat than Hurricane Bill did.